Another mafia head goes down in Marbella

The leader of the Russian-Georgian mafia was arrested Sunday in Marbella. Zakhar Kniazevich Kalashov will be extradited to Georgia where he has a pending prison sentence.

Kalashov was arrested at 13:45 in Marbella by agents of the Organized Crime and Drugs Unit (UDYCO). Kalashov was sentenced to seven and a half years prison this past Tuesday by the National Court. The court also ordered Zakhar Kniazevich Kalashov to pay a fine of 20 million euros.

MONEY LAUNDERING

The prosecutor accussed the “capo” of leading a criminal organization which dedicated itself to laundering “important quantities of money” obtained through drugs, weapons, contract killings, extortion, smuggling and the control of the major casinos in Russia.